About the program

This executive master in Information Technology aims to: (1) Producing IT professionals having the skills to understand and handle latest developments in information technology and apply them in their working environments, (2) Enrich the professional skills by conducting state of the art studies to enhance technical and business skills, (3) Creating IT professionals having forefront knowledge in managing and accomplishing IT enterprises, (4) Understand ethical, professional and societal responses of an Information Technology professional.

This executive master in Information Technology aims to study challenges and opportunities of managing and leading in a digital world within the context of a dynamic environment of technology workforce diversity, a global and emerging collaborative economy, and concern for ethics and social responsibility in the development of systems/technologies. Thus, equipping students with the knowledge, skills and tools to be an effective information technology (IT) leader. Students will learn and practice skills to run productive & effective collaborative problem-solving efforts, using modern collaboration technology.

Also, this program aims to provide a solid academic experience that is grounded in the best practices, principles and methodologies of IT Project Management. It addresses the set of competencies, knowledge and interpersonal skills that effective Project Managers require while achieving project objectives and balancing the project constraints. This program introduces students to data analytics including big data analytics, data quality, and visualization. It will cover concepts, tools and techniques within the context of addressing business challenges and/or to create competitive advantage. This program is intended to give students an introduction to a variety of information security topics. It will cover foundational technical concepts as well as managerial and policy topics. The technical topics include security objectives, the OSI security model, cryptography fundamentals, software security, operating system security, network security, physical and infrastructure security, security auditing. These concepts, skills, ideas and experiences gained to develop an applied research project will be combined with the presentation of important analyzes and critical analyzes in formulating an applied research problem in the graduation project in business information systems.

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